"They are throwing beers and cherry bombs at us."

July 6, 2016 7:26 AM

On July 12, 1979, the Chicago rock station WLUP-FM and the Chicago White Sox collaborated on a twinight double-header originally called Teen Night. After the events of that evening, it would come to be known as Disco Demolition.
posted by Chrysostom (8 comments total)

Previous post.
posted by Pendragon at 7:29 AM on July 6, 2016

Let's repeat. Both the post and the demolition. Only this time, make it pop, EDM and emo.
posted by jonmc at 7:42 AM on July 6, 2016

We're not even gonna get you out on the floor, are we, jonmc?
posted by thelonius at 7:43 AM on July 6, 2016 [1 favorite]

No. Hip hop and neo soul can stay though,
posted by jonmc at 7:44 AM on July 6, 2016 [1 favorite]

Right on. Rock and Roll will never die!
posted by thelonius at 7:46 AM on July 6, 2016

That December, music critic Dave Marsh wrote about Disco Demolition in Rolling Stone. “White males 18 to 34 are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks, and Latins,” he said, “and therefore they’re the most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security.”


Not to be too homosexual about it, but plus ça change...
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:53 AM on July 6, 2016 [3 favorites]

WZAZ in Chicago, where disco lives forever!
posted by splen at 7:53 AM on July 6, 2016

Tony Fitzpatrick: "For me, Disco Demolition was a license to let your freak flag fly. We took over a ballpark. It was kind of cool. We began to realize we had a tiny bit of power in the world."

Thank goodness a white guy realized that he could gain power by rejecting music that wasn't explicitly for white guys.
posted by Etrigan at 8:00 AM on July 6, 2016 [3 favorites]